The show you're about to listen to may contain themes of violence, occult activities, strong language, and other sensitive material.

With an emphasis on cult's murder and other adult matters, listener discretion is advised.

On cult leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press, media, and other resources cannot always be verified.

Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cold leader.

I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry, and the time has come to talk about one of the most notorious cults in cult history.

Colt babes, you already know, we don't normally pause to give trigger warnings. However, just so you are aware, as we cover this cult, we're going to be talking about some disturbing claims of sexual abuse

and other systemic exploitation involving children and infants abuses that weren't just

tolerated inside this group. But according to internal publications, were encouraged, normalized,

and in some cases, even presented as doctrine. So with that being said, if you're

not in the right headspace to receive that information or learn about this cult, it's totally

understandable. This is your chance to tap out and head on over to one of our many alien abduction

or haunted asylum stories. But the rest of you, if you're here for fucked up

cult and the horrifying places they can go, settle in Colt Babes and get ready because this cult,

to me, might be one of the most twisted we've ever covered, and that's saying something. You've

probably heard the name Children of God. If you follow

pop culture at all, there's a lot of Hollywood cross over here. You might have heard about it. You might

even remember we touched on it a while back in the episode about musicians who joined cults.

When I talked about how Jeremy Spencer of Fleetwood Mac, who bailed mid-tour in 1971,

to join this cult. At one point in time,

this intentional community, intentional sect, whatever you want to call it, was crawling with would-be Hollywood stars. This is the same cult that eventually had people like Joaquin Phoenix and

Rose McGowan growing up inside its walls.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's go back a bit. We've got to back it up because none of

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